Post traumatic stress disorder in developmental age

: This paper has been designed to provide an overview of research results concerning the impact of war stress on the genesis of psycho trauma in developmental age. The objective was to assess the effectiveness of psychotherapy in concrete clinical cases. In particular, the prognosis of psycho trauma in the given sub-population is discussed, while recognizing the generally accepted premise that each person in developmental age who has been exposed to severe stress is psycho traumatized. A comparison is made with other research results available in the literature dealing with the subject of war psycho trauma. A particular emphasis is placed on the genesis and specificity of manifestation of psycho trauma in adolescents who were actively involved in the army during the war. The excerpts from the adolescent soldiers' diaries are intended to show in the original form the mental process of elaborating psycho traumatic experience transfer. The paper ends with the conclusion that professionals who work in the area of mental health protection should pay greater attention to so-called trans-generational trauma.